Twelve million girls are married every year before they reach 18, according to UN estimates. And in its first set of global statistics on child marriage rates among boys, the UN found one in 30 young men were married as children. The girls who speak here were photographed in collaboration with the London-based NGO Girls Not Brides – an international network of more than 1,400 civil society organisations working to end child marriage and enable girls to fulfil their potential

Ekhaya is a series of portraits of people in their homes, in and around Cape Town, South Africa. The homes are sometimes semi-formal structures, others are simply a converted container, left over from a film shoot. What links all all of them is that they are home to the people that live there.

Over a 10-day period, we traveled with colleagues from the U.S. Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to South Africa, to the epicentre of the global HIV and TB epidemics in Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal.

Over a period of 20 days in September and October 2015, I travelled around South Africa's Eastern Cape, into Lesotho and up to Johannesburg to find and photograph the 56 miners and widows named in the ground-breaking silicosis class action lawsuit.

In Limpopo province of South Africa, many school children do not have access to a full quota of textbooks. The government promised to provide them but 4 years later still has not delivered. Public interest law firm Section27 took the South African government to court in November 2015 to demand that they provide a full quota of textbooks for each learner.

In 2021 I traveled around Lesotho for PEPFAR (U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief). The aim was to document the great steps that have been taken to mitigate the once devastating HIV/AIDS epidemic.

Over a 3 month period in 2018, I travelled from South Africa to Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, India, The Philippines, Uganda and Turkey to photograph 9 defenders campaigning against issues as diverse as pollution, deforestation, poaching and indigenous land rights.

SECTION27’s Nomatter Ndebele and I travelled the roads of South Africa in search of the foot soldiers of the health system, the men and women who quietly get on with doing the job and saving lives, often without any acknowledgement.